Pete (Aldridge) Bousfield | |
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| Born | April 5, 1941 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Died | October 4, 2020 (aged 79) |
| Alma mater | M.I.T. |
| Known for | Bousfield localization |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Algebraic Topology |
| Institutions | Brandeis University, University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Higher Order Suspension Maps for Non-Additive Functors (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Kan |
Aldridge Knight Bousfield (April 5, 1941 – October 4, 2020),[1] known as "Pete", was an American mathematician working in algebraic topology, known for the concept of Bousfield localization.